Overview
Jennifer Van Regenmorter’s experience covers a wide range of business disciplines, and she has particular expertise in health care law. Jennifer is Foster Swift's Health Care Practice Group leader and has many years of experience representing providers with emphasis on hospitals, physicians, hospices, pharmacies, home care and long-term care. This includes one of the country’s largest long-term care organizations. Jennifer's health care practice includes:
- Joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and affiliations
- Regulatory compliance
- Contracts
- Licensing and certification of facilities
- Licensure and credentialing issues involving individual health care professionals
- Stark and anti-kickback compliance
- Third-party administrator agreements
- HIPAA privacy and security issues
- Concierge medicine
- Physician practices
- Employment and independent contractor arrangements
- PACE programs
Jennifer is also experienced in the real estate area and has negotiated many multi-million dollar commercial acquisitions and sales with particular expertise in condominium law.
In addition, Jennifer is an expert in representing new businesses with choice of entity and business formation issues as well as established businesses with ongoing business matters including stock purchase agreements. Jennifer assists business owners with establishing irrevocable trusts, such as life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, and intentionally defective grantor trusts. She has also represented many individuals and families in executive estate planning, planning for blended families and the formation of family LLCs.
Honors & Recognitions
2012 Athena Award Nominee
2011 Thought Leader in Law - West Michigan Business Review
Best Lawyers in America® 2018-2019 (Health Care Law)
Affiliations
Memberships & Affiliations
Legal Affiliations:
- State Bar of Michigan
- Health Care
- Elder Law
- Real Property
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Michigan State Bar Foundation, Fellow
Industry & Professional Associations:
- Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Board of Directors
- Gerontology Network, Past Board Member
- Health Care Association of Michigan
- Aging Services of Michigan
- Michigan Society of Healthcare Risk Management
Community Involvement:
- Holland Area Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors
- Exchange Club, Past President
- Holland Teen Ministry, Past Board Member
- United Way, Holland Professional Division Chair
Communications
Recent Blog Posts
Health Care Law Blog
- Update on the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Proposed Rules for Licensing Health Facilities and Agencies
- MDHHS Issues New Guidelines for Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Organizations in Michigan
- Hospice Provider Agrees to Pay $75 Million to Settle False Claims Act Lawsuit
- IRS Revokes Hospital's Tax-Exempt Status for Noncompliance with Affordable Care Act
- OIG Report Could Trigger Increased CMS Oversight of Skilled Nursing Facilities
- CMS Extends Home Health Agency Enrollment Moratorium for Six Months
- CMS Delays Enforcement of Nursing Home Mega Rule
- Michigan Health Care Providers May Now Prescribe Controlled Substances via Telemedicine
- CMS Releases Final Rule Revising Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies
- HHS OIG Report Identifies Non-Compliance in Hospice Documentation
Publications
- Resident Research Time Excluded from Hospitals' Medicare Reimbursement, Foster Swift Health Care Law Report, September 2011
- Update to October 2010 Newsletter Article "Home Health & Hospice Rules Require Face-to-Face Patient Visits", Foster Swift Health Care Law Report, February 2011
- New Medicare Screening Requirements for Providers, Foster Swift Health Care Law Report, February 2011
- Home Health and Hospice Rules Require Face-to-Face Patient Encounters, West Michigan MD News, November 2010
- Home Health and Hospice Rules Require Face-to-Face Patient Visits, Foster Swift Health Care Law Report (Also published in the Nov/Dec issue of MD News West Michigan), October 2010
- It’s Tax Appeal Time of Year...Again, Siebers Mohney Blog, February 20, 2010
News & Events
News
- 45 Foster Swift Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America© 2019, August 15, 2018
- Firm Elects Health Care Practice Group Leader, Grand Rapids Business Journal, March 7, 2018
- 46 Foster Swift Attorneys Named to 2018 Best Lawyers in America®, August 21, 2017
- Van Regenmorter Named to The Best Lawyers in America©, August 17, 2017
- Calvin College Alum Named to RCA Commission, July 17, 2017
- Van Regenmorter Highlighted in "Women in Business" Article, BUSINESS - A Magazine from the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce, Winter 2012
- Frederick, TerMaat and Van Regenmorter Elected Shareholders, January 9, 2012
Speaking Engagements
- Healthcare Law Update, Michigan Society of Healthcare Risk Management, May 27, 2016
- Michigan Health Law Update, March 10, 2016
- Estate Planning Presentation, Rose Park Baptist Church, October 18, 2014
- Michigan Health Law Update, 20th Annual Health Law Institute - The Institute for Continuing Legal Education, March 6, 2014
- Michigan Health Law Update, 20th Annual Health Law Institute, March 6, 2014
- Michigan Health Law Update, 19th Annual Health Law Institute - The Institute for Continuing Legal Education, March 7-8, 2013
Practice Areas
Education
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D., 1993
Calvin College, B.A., English, 1990
Bar and Court Admissions
Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan